Quotes About Isolation

Being lonely isn't about wanting to be with other people—it's about wanting to be with people who really care about you.

Somewhere Blister came up with boat rope and duct tape. He bound and gagged Yancy before sliding him under a bed. Yancy was impressed by the cleanliness of the floor—not even a dust bunny. The polished pine planks felt cool against his cheek. He shut his eyes and strained to hear the conversation of the carping fuckwits in the adjoining room.

subsisting mostly on Popsicles and so-called

The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star to star.

Do whales know each other's names? Can they recognise each other as individuals by sounds alone? We have cut the whales off from themselves. Creatures that communicated for tens of millions of years have now effectively been silenced.

She had spent her career attempting to make contact with the most remote and alien of strangers, while in her own life she had made contact with hardly anyone at all.

Each star system is an island in space, quarantined from its neighbors by the light-years. I can imagine creatures evolving into glimmerings of knowledge on innumerable worlds, every one of them assuming at first their puny planet and paltry few suns to be all that is. We grow up in isolation. Only slowly do we teach ourselves the Cosmos.

Na Arean sat alone in space as a cloud that floats in nothingness. He slept not, for there was no sleep; he hungered not, for as yet there was no hunger. So he remained for a great while, until a thought came to his mind. He said to himself, I will make a thing.

The great radio telescopes of the world are constructed in remote locations for the same reason Paul Gauguin sailed to Tahiti: For them to work well, they must be far from civilization.

And just when she felt more capable of love than she had ever been, she found herself alone.

You'd be surprised how rarely something like that happens. In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it. In such a case, our job would be to leave them alone. To make sure that no one bothers them. To let them work out their destiny.

Una científica compañera mía me contaba un reciente viaje que realizó a la meseta de Nueva Guinea, donde visitó una tribu todavía en la edad de piedra que apenas había tenido contactos con la civilización. Ignoraban lo que son los relojes de pulsera, las bebidas refrescantes y los alimentos congelados. Pero conocían el Apolo 11. Sabían que los humanos han pisado la Luna.

Los dioses no vienen a componer las cosas que nos salieron mal. Fíjese en la historia del hombre, y se dará cuenta de que siempre estuvimos solos

Isolation, even if incomplete, breeds diversity.

We grow up in isolation. Only slowly do we teach ourselves the Cosmos.

SevdiÄŸin biriyle birlikte yaÅŸamak daha da büyük yaln?zl?k… tamamen yaln?z kalmaktan daha büyük yaln?zl?k! EÄŸer sevdiÄŸin kiÅŸi seni sevmiyorsa…

Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.

To be not alone, even for a few moments, is worth the pain and the danger.

But I think people always die alone... with or without relations.

Living with someone you love can be lonelier — than living entirely alone — if the one that y' love doesn't love you.

BRICK —No me gusta que me digan lo que debo hacer. ¿Ya has olvidado las condiciones que acepté para que continuáramos viviendo juntos? MARGARET —Tú no vives conmigo, Brick. Únicamente compartes la misma jaula.

A single girl, a girl alone in the world, has got to keep a firm hold on her emotions or she'll be lost!

But, honey, you know as well as I do that a single girl, a girl alone in the world, has got to keep a firm hold on her emotions or she'll be lost!

Imagine how unbearably, how unutterably cold the Universe would be if one were all alone